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Research
and Development (R&D) Exchange Workshop
October 28 - October 29, 2004
Monterey, California
Theme
The two-day event will be held at the
Monterey Marriott. The Thursday session will be held from 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. and the Friday session will be held from 8:30 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. This year's theme is A Year Later: R&D Issues to
Ensure Trustworthiness in Telecommunications and Information Systems
that Directly or Indirectly Impact National Security and Emergency
Preparedness (NS/EP). Dr. John Marburger, Office of Science and
Technology Policy (OSTP), and Dr. Charles McQueary, Science and
Technology (S&T) Directorate, Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), are invited to present keynote addresses during the opening
plenary session and to participate in the summation session.
Fact Sheet
The Research and Development Exchange (RDX) Workshop
is a special event conducted periodically by the President’s
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)
to stimulate and facilitate a dialogue among industry, Government,
and academia on emerging security technology research and development
(R&D) issues. The President’s NSTAC, in the past, has
invited representatives from the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National
Institute of Standards and Technology; various academic institutions;
and companies from across the telecommunications and information
technology landscape, to participate in past RDX Workshops to ensure
inclusion of all stakeholders in the R&D community. The results
of the RDX Workshop will be captured in a Proceedings document that
is published by the President’s NSTAC.
In 1990, the growing prevalence of hacker incidents
led to the formation of the NSTAC’s Network Security Task
Force. Its purpose was to assess the threats to and vulnerabilities
of the Public Switched Telephone Network. A key component of the
task force’s work included examining R&D issues related
to security with a particular emphasis on improving commercially
applicable tools. To explore security technology R&D issues
in greater depth, the RDX Workshop concept first surfaced in 1991.
To date, there have been five workshop events:
- RDX Workshop #1 (1991): the first workshop consisted
of two separate events intended to provide a forum for industry
and Government officials to share their unique perspectives on
R&D issues. In the first session, Government representatives
presented their views on security technology R&D issues. In
the second session, industry representatives provided their perspectives
on R&D issues related to network and telecommunications security.
- RDX Workshop #2 (1996): the second workshop facilitated
a discussion of network security problems affecting national security
and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) telecommunications, identified
R&D programs in progress to address those problems, and identified
future security technology R&D needs. Four broad security
topics were discussed: authentication, intrusion detection, integrity,
and access control.
- RDX Workshop #3 (1998): held at Purdue University’s
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and
Security in West Lafayette, Indiana, the third workshop examined
collaborative approaches to security technology R&D. The participants
also discussed the need for training more information technology
security professionals, creating large-scale testbeds to test
security products and solutions, and promoting the creation of
Information Assurance (IA) Centers of Excellence in academia.
- RDX Workshop #4 (2000): the fourth workshop, held
at the University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, examined issues
of transparent security in a converged and distributed network
environment. Attendees discussed the need to address the shortage
of qualified information security professionals, expand the number
of universities participating in the IA Centers of Excellence
program, and promote best practices, standards, and protection
profiles to enhance the security of the Next Generation Network.
- RDX Workshop 5 (2003): held at the Georgia
Tech Information Security Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
in Atlanta, Georgia, the fifth workshop focused on “Research
and Development Issues to Ensure Trustworthiness in Telecommunications
and Information Systems that Directly or Indirectly Impact National
Security and Emergency Preparedness”. Participants examined
the trustworthiness issue from four different perspectives: cyber
security and software, human factors, physical security, and integration
issues.
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